This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet Podcast

Lou was diagnosed ADHD in her 30s. By that point, she had already been through secondary school struggling and unidentified, failed college three times, experienced serious mental health crises, and spent years being told to try harder. When she finally sat with a therapist, everything she brought to that room turned out to be ADHD. Not failure, but simply a neurotype the world had never named for...

Dr Clare Jacobson has spent over 20 years holding people's most intimate inner worlds. As a specialist clinical psychologist in teenage and young adult cancer care, she knows what it means to sit with invisible experience - the kind that doesn't show up on a blood test, but is completely real. Over the past year, Clare has been on her own journey of neurodivergent identification. And in...

What happens when perimenopause and neurodivergent identification arrive at the same moment? When hormones shift, the mask starts to slip, and nobody in the medical system has any idea what is actually going on? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Sophie Cartledge, founder of Hormones on the Blink, a training platform working at the intersection of hormone health, menopause, and neurodiver...

What does it take to build a movement of over a million people when you started secondary school unable to speak a single word? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Eve Harrison, founder of Let's Make A Difference, a grassroots campaign raising awareness about communication challenges and the power of small acts of understanding. Eve is autistic, learned BSL during the pandemic when sp...

What does it actually mean to take care of yourself, when every version of self-care you've tried has felt like another thing to fail at? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Suzy Reading, Chartered Psychologist and author of How to Be Selfish , about what it takes to heal our relationship with self.  Not with a checklist or a spa day, but with the slow, courageous work of coming home...

Ryan Swain was told from childhood that his energy was too much, his focus was wrong, and his way of being didn't fit. Teachers called him a liability. Nobody asked why. In this episode, Dr Emma Offord talks with Ryan, founder of the You, Me & ADHD awareness campaign, about growing up undiagnosed in a system that had no language for who he was. Ryan shares the story of finding skateboardi...

What happens inside a child's body when they hold it all together at school, only to fall apart the moment they walk through the front door? And what does that cost the parents who are there to catch them, every single day? In this episode, Dr Emma Offord is joined by health psychologist, CBT therapist, and EMDR practitioner Jo Rodriguez for an honest, warm, and deeply grounding conversation...

Lisa Galley built her career in autism the long way round: studying part time, raising three children, sitting her finals at nine months pregnant, and working in high-pressure NHS autism outreach before burnout took it all away. What followed was years of frightening physical symptoms, a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, and a profound loss of identity. What she built on the other side was so...

In this episode of This Voice Is Mine , Dr Emma Offord is joined by clinical psychologist, author, and maternal mental health specialist Dr Caroline Boyd for a deeply honest and necessary conversation about motherhood, anger, and the stories we are taught to silence. Together, they explore the realities that so many parents live but rarely feel able to name: intrusive thoughts, maternal rage, emot...

In this intimate, reflective episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord and the DL team are joined by Helen Marie, a UK-based registered integrative therapist, author of Choose You , and host of the podcast I Don’t Think We Talk Enough About . Together, Emma and Helen, along with Jolene and Jo, explore what it really means to grow full size: not as a performance of confiden...

Parenting a neurodivergent child in a system that was never designed for their brain is hard. Parenting that child while you are still healing your own school trauma is something else entirely. In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast , Dr Emma Offord is joined by parenting coach and host of the Parent Unplugged podcast, Charis Halsall. A mum of three and an outspoken advocate fo...

In this emotionally rich and beautifully honest episode, Charlotte Hunt, the powerhouse behind Twin Tides & Autism Vibes , joins Dr Emma Offord to explore the hidden stories behind advocacy, identity, motherhood, and living a neurodivergent life that was never built for your wiring. Charlotte shares her journey from being a school refuser at 14, to navigating complex family dynamics, to discov...

In this deeply grounding episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast , Dr Emma Offord is joined by Will Martin, Nutritional Therapist, former teacher, and late-identified Dyslexic, Autistic ADHDer who helps children, adults and parents regulate their emotions and attention through holistic, evidence-based neurobiology. Together, Emma and Will explore the unspoken internal world so many neur...

In this opening episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast , Dr Emma Offord sits down with author, illustrator and PDA/autism advocate Eliza Fricker,  the creator of Missing the Mark and Sunday Times bestseller Can’t Not Won’t , to talk about what happens when life “goes nuclear” and the mask finally slips. Eliza shares the story of her daughter’s breakdown from school, the loneliness of b...